The Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia from about 4500 to 1750 B.C.E., and developed a number of technologies that changed the ...

How the Ancient Sumerians Created the World's First Writing System ‹ Literary Hub Sumer was a civilization that arose in southern Mesopotamia and is said to have laid the foundations of ...

The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on a group of cylindrical seals. A team of archeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has identified a series of ...

Ancient Egyptian heiroglyphs, like these from the tomb of Pharaoh Ramesses IV, are a form of pictogram writing. (Unsplash: Tom Podmore) The earliest evidence of this comes from ancient Mesopotamia ...

First developed around 3200 B.C. by Sumerian scribes in the ancient city-state of Uruk, in present-day Iraq, as a means of recording transactions, cuneiform writing was created by using a reed ...

Researchers from the University of Bologna have unveiled how ancient cylinder seals played a key role in the development of writing in ancient Mesopotamia, marking a significant breakthrough in ...

“Seals are a key consideration on the path towards writing in southwest Asia. At times, shared seal and sign shapes may reflect common referents in the real world,” like the need to track trade and ...